Product Description

Measuring 4″ in height, the Mother of Tenderness Plaque is a breathtaking, reverent, and love-filled homage to the strength, beauty, and honor of Mary. This plaque can be placed in any room in your home, office, or chapel as reminder of the tender mercy of Mary. The bronze design depicts Mary with a serene smile of tenderness and love, cradling the infant Jesus in her arms. Behind this bronze scene is a spectacular and vivid burst of colors provided by green, blue, and red enamel inlays.

A Marian Plaque Ideal for Mother’s Day

With its message and depiction of maternal tenderness, love, and grace, the Mother of Tenderness Plaque is a perfect gift for Mother’s Day or for the birthday of the mother in your life. This plaque is also a fitting gift for many other occasions such as a birthday, first communion, confirmation, wedding (or wedding anniversary). This is a precious gift of true heirloom quality that will be hung prominently, treasured, and shared by mother with daughter for generations to come!

Mary, The Fleur-de-Lis, and the Holy Trinity

On this plaque, Mary’s halo is surmounted by a crown with five fleur-de-Lis (lily flower). A fleur-de-Lis stands to her left and to her right. Until circa 1300, the fleur-de-Lis was seen only in depictions of Jesus. With the passage of time, however, the fleur-de-Lis became associated exclusively just with Mary. For Mary was seen as the “lily among thorns” of Song of Songs 2:2. Moreover, since the lily was held up as a symbol of purity and chastity, the fleur-de-lis was a frequently occurring iconographic attribute of the Virgin Mary. The three Persons of the Holy Trinity are symbolized by the three petals of the fleur-de-lis. The band binding the three petals together, however, was Mary by necessity – for the Trinity simply cannot be comprehended without Mary, the Theotokos, the tender young mother of Jesus, the incarnate Word, the Second Person of the Trinity.